Environ vs Urge - What's the difference?
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To surround; to encircle.
* 1673 , ”:
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* John Donne
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
* Alexander Pope
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
* Shakespeare
To provoke; to exasperate.
* Shakespeare
To press hard upon; to follow closely.
* Alexander Pope
To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
As verbs the difference between environ and urge
is that environ is to surround; to encircle while urge is to press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.As a noun urge is
a strong desire; an itch to do something.environ
English
Verb
(en verb)- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.
- Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed .
- Environed he was with many foes.
- Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
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English
Verb
(urg)- through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
- My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
- Urge not my father's anger.
- Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
- to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
- to urge an ore with intense heat
